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title: 1 Chronicles 29:1 (JPS 1917) — And David the king said unto all the congregation: 'Solomon my son,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And David the king said unto all the congregation: 'Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. Who acts: David, God, Solomon, work. 1 Chronicles 29:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# 1 Chronicles 29:1 · JPS 1917

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And David the king said unto all the congregation: 'Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

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**Who acts:** David, God, Solomon, work, palace · **What happens:** say, choose, be, not be · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is 1 Chronicles 29:1 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (David, God, Solomon, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:1CH:997
# text = And David the king said unto all the congregation: 'Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | David |  |  |  |  | unto all congregation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect | God | my son |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Solomon |  |  |  | yet | young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Solomon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the work |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | the palace |  |  |  |  | for man but the LORD God | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֤יד הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְכָל־הַקָּהָ֔ל שְׁלֹמֹ֨ה בְנִ֥י אֶחָ֛ד בָּֽחַר־בּ֥וֹ אֱלֹהִ֖ים נַ֣עַר וָרָ֑ךְ וְהַמְּלָאכָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֔ה כִּ֣י לֹ֤א לְאָדָם֙ הַבִּירָ֔ה כִּ֖י לַיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[1 Chronicles 29:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.29.1/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1CH:997` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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